I transmit herewith for Senate advice and consent to ratification
the Protocol Amending the Convention Between the United States
of America and Canada with Respect to Taxes on Income and on
Capital Signed at Washington on September 26, 1980 as Amended
by the Protocols Signed on June 14, 1983, March 28, 1984 and
March 17, 1995, signed at Ottawa on July 29, 1997. This Protocol
modified the taxation of social security benefits and the taxation
of gains from the sale of shares of foreign real-property holding
companies.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration
to this Protocol and give its advice and consent to ratification.